Rode Oortjes Meter

Social Excitement Behavior Communication Tool (SEBCT)

Highly essential communication tool for spaces with complicated social order. Like an opening of an exhibition or a party. It gives the amount of excitement through the change of color. The scale goes from blue (low excitement) to red (high excitement).

Sketch of people wearing the Rode Oortjes Meters being more or less excited, 2015

Asavisitor you can wear aRode Oortjes Meter. An ear-clipon the ear and a little box hangingon your neck. Youarewearingsomethingthat gives more informationthenyou are aware of.You don't seethelight changing, butthe spectator/ researchercan. They caninterpret thecolour-change of theRode Oortjes Meter, a change inexcitementof this person, the(unconscious) thoughts of that person and all the other variables in the environment.

Selfies wearing the Rode Oortjes Meter being less or more excited, 2015

Black 3D-printed box(45x30x25(mm)) + Red Plexiglas cap done by laser + 4 thin braided electrical wires + Black earpiece consisting of two glued together 3d printed shapes with RGB-led and (orange) thermistor (For more details about the realisation of the project, check IMALwhere I could be in residence for making 30 Rode Oortjes Meter, special thanks to Julien Maire, Francois and Yves)

With not much sleep - making prototypes till it works properly, programming, ordering hardware, soldering, gluing, further programming, ... - fortunately they still got ready for the opening of the group-exhibition VIRUS at Netwerk, Aalst, 2014, where I presented the idea, a sketch, 4 months before.